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Welcome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Mahoney)
Thu Feb 25 13:21:51 1999
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:21:33 -0500
To: security-fyi@mit.edu
From: Bob Mahoney <bobmah@MIT.EDU>
Welcome to the security-fyi list. Hopefully you'll find the
occasional message we send to be useful and informative. Again, this
list is intended as a information broadcast mechanism, as opposed to
a support mechanism.
If you weren't already aware of it, we have a Network Security Team
on campus. It's an IS-managed, (but with representatives from across
campus) team that works to respond to security incidents, and also to
do the proactive sort of work to make the campus network more secure.
We will have a team web page up in the near future that will describe
our mission and efforts in more detail, and it will be announced here.
In the meantime, if you wish to report a security incident you can
send mail to net-security@mit.edu. You will be assigned a case
number, and someone from the team will respond. Unfortunately, we do
not at the present time have the resources to do "real" systems
consulting beyond incident response, but we have passed this along as
an expressed community need.
First, some updates.
SecureCRT, a 32-bit Windows SSH client, is now available to members
of the MIT community. This may be useful for groups that run servers
not currently supporting Kerberos-enhanced telnet access. (For
information on SSH, see
http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/FAQ/remote_access/ssh.html) SecureCRT can
be gotten at:
ftp://net-dist/mit/winNT/security/securecrt/
It is not officially supported software, and is licensed to the MIT
community only. Please do not distribute this software or the
license key (found in the README file). This software is courtesy of
the Media Lab, who has shared their extra licenses with the MIT
community.
We are also working to acquire a freely-distributable (and
source-available) Windows SSH client in the near future. More on
that when as the situation develops. Similar efforts are on the
agenda for a Macintosh SSH, as well as secure ftp clients for Mac and
Windows.
-Bob Mahoney, for the Network Security team
